Running to the action
Some people run to the action. Like a few months back when I was standing on my front porch and saw some military trucks full of soldiers go zooming past the intersection nearby, heading who-knows-where. I looked across the street to see a teenage girl holding a baby, who was watching the soldiers too. Was she afraid? Going to hide? Evidently not, because the next thing I knew, she had handed off the baby to a nearby person, borrowed a face mask from them (gross), and was running to see where the soldiers were going and what they were going to do! I saw a couple dozen people similarly running towards the action. I, on the other hand, was disinclined to follow that crowd, having seen tear gas and rubber bullets used recently to break up groups of people that weren't supposed to be gathering together due to health concerns. Soon a larger crowd of people was running the opposite way, away from the action. Yelling, laughing, stopping to see if they were being foll...